News in Alsager

Lawton Manor Care Home, in Church Lawton, has teamed up with Alsager Highfields Primary School for a newly launched pen pal scheme, connecting residents within their homes with creative writing pupils.

Residents of Lawton Manor, which is run by Barchester Healthcare have written replies to letters received from children of different ages at the school and have started to make new friends within the inter-generational scheme.

A 35-year-old man from Alsager has been charged after a pensioner was assaulted during a burglary incident in the town.

Paul McMillan, of Crewe Road, was arrested on Monday 18 January by officers investigating the incident.

Alsager Town Council has approved its budgets for the coming year (2021/22), agreeing a more than six per cent reduction in residents' precept payment.

The precept is the yearly sum requested by the town council to help it meet its spending requirements. It is then converted into an amount per council tax band and collected by the borough council as part of your council tax bill.

Alsager Highfields are delighted to receive such positive feedback from local nursing homes after their children made cards and wrote letters to spread some Christmas joy amongst the residents.

The initiative started with The Oaks retirement village asking them to create cards, but after so much enthusiasm from the primary school pupils they made the decision to contact all other homes in the area.

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A church in Alsager wants everyone to know that they are loved by showering the whole town with hearts over the coming weeks.

Christ Church Alsager hope that everyone joins in to spread the love around the community.

Residents have been urged by Cheshire East to not leave litter near a lake in Alsager as it will give rats a "ready supply" of food.

With the third national lockdown in full swing, residents have been using The Mere, on Crewe Road, as a nice, pleasant location to embark upon their daily exercise and get some fresh air.

An Alsager ward councillor requested at a Cheshire East cabinet meeting this week that the authority provided residents with adequate information regarding gritting and snow clearance.

Following the recent icy and snowy weather, Cllr June Buckley, a ward and town councillor for Alsager, queried at Tuesday's cabinet meeting, where residents could expect to find their closest salt bins and bags.

Migrating toads in the village of Smallwood, which is co-ordinated by an Alsager town councillor, are to get special protection as they head off to breed.

Cheshire East Council has responded to a plea from Smallwood Toad Patrols, co-ordinated by Animal Welfare Party councillor Jane Smith, who sits on Alsager Town Council, to erect signs on roads in the village, where toads cross to mate on the warmer spring evenings.

Pre-schoolers at Townhouse Nursery in Alsager have been getting active with online Family Dance Fit workouts by health and wellbeing charity Everybody Leisure.

We all know how important it is to keep children active and healthy, but with the added pressures of home schooling and a national lockdown, children have once again been forced to spend more time than ever indoors at home.